The two-day nationwide college entrance exam, or gaokao, ended on June 8. This year, 9.39 million students took the exam.

The subject of Chinese took place the first morning, and after it ended, the writing subjects of different provinces were released, triggering hot discussions online.

On Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform, there are almost 98,000 posts regarding the gaokao writing questions.

An online vote by sohu.com shows most people agree that Beijing's and Shanghai's writing questions are the best, while many Internet users say Anhui's writing question is the weirdest.

There were 18 different sets of exams floating around China with different writing tests.

Here are a few of them.

The Beijing exam: The manners of Beijing

Please write an article about the manners of Beijing, for example, the manners one should behave when visiting another person's home.

The Shanghai exam: Freedom and non-freedom.

You can choose your own road and how to travel on it through a desert, so you are free. However, you must go through the desert and so you are not free.

The National Standardized Exam Paper I shared by provinces including Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi and Hebei:

Goats pass a single-log bridge.

A school is holding a sports meeting with the last event being "Goats pass a single-log bridge", in which two students start walking from the two ends of a single-log bridge. The rules require when the two meet, one will pass along the bridge and the other will get off the bridge. But at this year's preliminary contest, a pair of students clasped each other when meeting in the middle of the bridge before they turned around and so the two both managed to pass the bridge. The referee believes the act is controversial. Please write an article according to this story.

The National Standardized Exam Paper II shared by provinces and regions including Inner Mongolia, Guizhou and Tibet:

Feeding animals in parks makes them lose their ability to hunt for food.

Don't feed small animals at tourist spots and let them find their food on their own so they don't lose their ability to find food. Please write an article according to the material.

Tianjin exam: If a smart chip were put into human brain.

Suppose one day a smart chip could be placed inside a human brain. Even an old lady could know everything between the sky and the sea. No one will need to learn anything anymore. Please write your opinion of this.

The Anhui exam: Who decides the amendment of a script?

An actor/actress says he/she is not the one reading a script and can change their lines. A screenwriter says he/she creates the script and cannot be changed by others. Please write an essay using any angle according to this material.

The Liaoning exam: The changes of life.

A grandfather and a grandson look out of a window in the evening. Lights twinkle here and there, and look like a rainbow. The little boy says, "How beautiful it is; without electricity, modern technology or high buildings, there would not be such beautiful sights." The grandfather waved the head, fell into reflection, and said, "It's a pity the sky with studded stars cannot be seen anymore. The ancient people who had bonfires beside the mountain cave, watched the moon and the stars, and could enjoy a more beautiful sight." Please write an article using any angle.

The Fujian exam: Empty valley.

"When mentioning an empty valley, some people think of cliffs and others think of plank bridges." Please write an article no fewer than 800 words according to this sentence.